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  • 1970-02-02T05:00:00Z on National Educational Television
  • 30m
  • 1d 8h 19m (65 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Children
Fred Rogers hosts this children's television program that teaches children the important issues of life, such as being friendly, sharing, etc. Also features an imaginary world with puppets living in a medieval-type kingdom.

65 episodes

Mister Rogers enters with a model of Daniel Striped Tiger's clock and visits the man who designed it: Robert (Bob) Trow. At his workshop, Trow is finishing a model of the Castle. He asks Rogers to ring the bell when he leaves as well as when he arrives.

Mr. Rogers presents slides of trees. Mr. McFeely delivers Bob Trow's model of X the Owl's Tree. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl learns that wishing doesn't make things come true.

1970-02-04T05:00:00Z

3x03 A Handy Lady

3x03 A Handy Lady

  • 1970-02-04T05:00:00Z29m

Rogers puts signs outside his front and back doors advising visitors to "please knock" or "please ring." Later in the program, he receives Bob Trow's model of the Museum-Go-Round.

3x04 Learning about Police Work

  • 1970-02-05T05:00:00Z29m

Rogers brings in Bob Trow's model of the Platypus Mound. Officer Clemmons shows Rogers the workings at his police station. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe finds Dr. Bill and Elsie Jean Platypus share a magic recipe for making pies.

1970-02-06T05:00:00Z

3x05 Making Mud Pies

3x05 Making Mud Pies

  • 1970-02-06T05:00:00Z29m

Season Three ends its first week with Rogers receiving the Factory model from Robert Trow. Beforehand, Rogers makes simple puppets from wooden spoons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine orders chairs from Cornflake S. Pecially in preparation for her new pie restaurant.

1970-02-09T05:00:00Z

3x06 Groceries

3x06 Groceries

  • 1970-02-09T05:00:00Z28m

Rogers plays a game using different shapes and grocieries. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine Fairchilde is preparing to open a pie restaurant between her Museum-Go-Round and the Platypus mound.

1970-02-10T05:00:00Z

3x07 Money

3x07 Money

  • 1970-02-10T05:00:00Z30m

Mister Rogers explains how coins are used in vending machines. Mr. McFeely finds a puppy. Mister Rogers keeps the puppy until a home is found for him.

1970-02-11T05:00:00Z

3x08 Pies

3x08 Pies

  • 1970-02-11T05:00:00Z30m

Chef Brockett how turnovers are made. He appears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, helping run the new pie restaurant.

1970-02-12T05:00:00Z

3x09 Repairing a Fence

3x09 Repairing a Fence

  • 1970-02-12T05:00:00Z30m

Mister Rogers repairs a wooden fence. Joe Negri visits and gives Mister Rogers some instructions on the guitar.

Dr. Yen Wang shows two laboratory rats, with which he wishes to shw that the study of rats is intended to benefit human beings. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe opens the pie restaurant, but King Friday XIII orders Bob Dog to Someplace Else.

1970-02-16T05:00:00Z

3x11 Shoes

3x11 Shoes

  • 1970-02-16T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers shines his shoes. The Pittsburgh Junior Tamburitzans visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and Bob Dog emerges to dance with them.

3x12 Uses for an Empty Shoe Box

  • 1970-02-17T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers discusses the things children can do with a shoe box. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Queen Sara is escorted to Westwood to visit Dr. Frogg.

1970-02-18T05:00:00Z

3x13 A Visit with Johnny Costa

3x13 A Visit with Johnny Costa

  • 1970-02-18T05:00:00Z30m

Johnny Costa and his grandson visit Rogers' television house and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Rogers discusses growing inside and outside. Mr. McFeely brings a dry aqaurium holding frogs and tadpoles. Later Mr. McFeely visits the Westwood Children's Zoo. Queen Sara returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe from Westwood after two days.

1970-02-20T05:00:00Z

3x15 Rules of the Road

3x15 Rules of the Road

  • 1970-02-20T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers talks about the use of triangles, such as on the Yield sign. Betty Aberlin arrives with Bob Trow's model of the Eiffel Tower (at last). Citizens in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe are worried because the King and Queen have yet to return from Westwood.

1970-02-23T05:00:00Z

3x16 Being Afraid

3x16 Being Afraid

  • 1970-02-23T05:00:00Z30m

Henrietta Pussycat fears Bob Dog's teeth. Lady Aberlin confides in Henrietta and tells everyone the King and Queen have a good secret.

1970-02-24T05:00:00Z

3x17 Horses

3x17 Horses

  • 1970-02-24T05:00:00Z30m

Bramble, a large horse, stands outside Rogers' television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday asks for, and receives, a stuffed horse. Daniel is afraid of the model.

1970-02-25T05:00:00Z

3x18 Typewriters

3x18 Typewriters

  • 1970-02-25T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers enters with a typewriter and the many ways to put the word ""typewriter"" to paper. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, an artist, perhaps in a foreshadowing mood, draws paintings of the King and Queen.

1970-02-26T05:00:00Z

3x19 A Visit from Mime Walker

3x19 A Visit from Mime Walker

  • 1970-02-26T05:00:00Z30m

King Friday XIII shares his secret with Mime Walker, informing him not to mention a word of this to anyone.

1970-02-27T05:00:00Z

3x20 All about X-Rays

3x20 All about X-Rays

  • 1970-02-27T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers has a recent chest x-ray, explaining what having an x-ray taken is about. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine warns her neighbors that King Friday might be starting a wild animal zoo. That, she feels, is his big secret. It isn't.

1970-03-02T05:00:00Z

3x21 A New Baby on the Way

3x21 A New Baby on the Way

  • 1970-03-02T05:00:00Z30m

Officer Clemmons announces he has accepted a new job with the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII and Queen Sara announce that they will have a baby.

1970-03-03T05:00:00Z

3x22 How People Make Crayons

3x22 How People Make Crayons

  • 1970-03-03T05:00:00Z30m

Lady Elaine and Mrs. Saunders tie up Officer Clemmons in a frantic attempt to keep him from moving.

1970-03-04T05:00:00Z

3x23 Fish

3x23 Fish

  • 1970-03-04T05:00:00Z30m

Betty Aberlin gives Rogers a black angel fish for his tank. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, she dresses as a black angel fish. At the Tree, she introduces a song praising Henrietta Pussycat.

1970-03-05T05:00:00Z

3x24 Raspberry Delight

3x24 Raspberry Delight

  • 1970-03-05T05:00:00Z30m

Mrs. Clemmons visits Rogers' television house with a poem about her new job title. Rogers invites her to a going-away party to be held the next day. A highlight of the gathering will be Mrs. Clemmons' favorite: raspberry delight. But what kind of raspberry delight should be made?

1970-03-06T05:00:00Z

3x25 Goodbye Officer Clemmons

3x25 Goodbye Officer Clemmons

  • 1970-03-06T05:00:00Z30m

Mr. and Mrs. Francois Clemmons are about to leave for New York. In both the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and Mister Rogers' television house, neighbors hold a farewell party.

1970-03-09T05:00:00Z

3x26 Bicycles and Tricycles

3x26 Bicycles and Tricycles

  • 1970-03-09T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers shows models of a bicycle and tricycle. Along the way, he introduces the prefixes ""bi"" and ""tri."" In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bob Dog fears moving wheels.

Rogers uses a tape recorder to tape the sounds of a xylophone, a drum, and a slide whistle. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday thinks his baby should learn the guitar from birth.

1970-03-11T05:00:00Z

3x28 Expressing Angry Feelings

3x28 Expressing Angry Feelings

  • 1970-03-11T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers shows how he reacts when he is angry. Using a punching bag may make you feel better. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin makes a punching bag from rags and knitting. X the Owl complements her work.

1970-03-12T05:00:00Z

3x29 The Letter B

3x29 The Letter B

  • 1970-03-12T05:00:00Z30m

When Coach Saunders informs how athletic and exercise equipment can protect oneself, King Friday orders all the equipment for the new royal baby.

1970-03-13T05:00:00Z

3x30 Window Cake

3x30 Window Cake

  • 1970-03-13T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers makes a window out of construction paper. Later he picks up a record album at Negri's Music Shop. In between, Chef Brockett goes to the neighborhood of Make-Believe with a cake for Grandpere and Lady Elaine. Handyman Negri helps Lady Elaine fix the King's broken window.

1970-03-16T05:00:00Z

3x31 Round Objects

3x31 Round Objects

  • 1970-03-16T05:00:00Z30m

Mr. McFeely delivers Lady Elaine an invitation to a boomerang contest. To show her gratitude, Lady Elaine shows "Funny Fast Films" of Mr. McFeely and Chef Brockett.

1970-03-17T05:00:00Z

3x32 Boomerang

3x32 Boomerang

  • 1970-03-17T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers plays rhyming games and flash cards with Bob Trow. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine and several others participate in the boomerang contest.

1970-03-18T05:00:00Z

3x33 Eggs

3x33 Eggs

  • 1970-03-18T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers shows different sizes of eggs and the animals who lay them. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Elsie Jean Platypus says her newly-laid egg will hatch in ten days.

1970-03-19T05:00:00Z

3x34 How to Make Donuts

3x34 How to Make Donuts

  • 1970-03-19T05:00:00Z30m

King Friday hears about the baby platypus that will emerge soon. He tries to make the Platypus family leave the Neighborhood of Make-Believe so that his child will be the first born there.

1970-03-20T05:00:00Z

3x35 Animals and Their Babies

3x35 Animals and Their Babies

  • 1970-03-20T05:00:00Z30m

Dr. Bill Platypus and Digger Digorum convince King Friday XIII that he will have the first human baby born in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Reminded, King Friday allows the Platypus family to stay. They will have the first animal baby born there.

1970-03-23T05:00:00Z

3x36 Death of a Goldfish

3x36 Death of a Goldfish

  • 1970-03-23T05:00:00Z30m

A fish in Rogers' tank has died. Rogers buries it and, with Bob Trow's help, constructs a tombstone with a pentagon bearing a fish drawing. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, concern hits when the Trolley stops at the Castle and doesn't move.

At the grave of the fish he had buried, Rogers talks of sad feelings. At Negri's Music Shop, he witnesses the Pittsburgh Junior Tamburitzans. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Platypus family waits for the egg to hatch.

Lady Aberlin finds everybody except Lady Elaine is at the Platypus Mound, waiting for the egg to hatch.

1970-03-26T05:00:00Z

3x39 The Baby Platypus Hatches

3x39 The Baby Platypus Hatches

  • 1970-03-26T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers demonstrates the use of a cane and shows many ways to write his name. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates the birth of Dr. Bill and Elsie Jean's baby girl platypus.

Handyman Negri is among those with a gift for the baby Platypus. It's a song to fit her name, Ornithorhynchus anatinus.

1970-03-30T05:00:00Z

3x41 Playing With a Suitcase

3x41 Playing With a Suitcase

  • 1970-03-30T05:00:00Z30m

Bob Trow has made a model of the Neighborhood Trolley and its tracks for Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday is tired of waiting for the baby to be born. Several neighbors decide to hold a play based on what King Friday puts in a suitcase.

1970-03-31T05:00:00Z

3x42 Suitcases Rock

3x42 Suitcases Rock

  • 1970-03-31T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers makes a cardboard suitcase. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. Anybody finds his apparently empty suitcase has a heavy rock in it. Lady Elaine had to have put the rock inside.

1970-04-01T05:00:00Z

3x43 Scary, Mad Wishes

3x43 Scary, Mad Wishes

  • 1970-04-01T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers goes to Negri's Music Shop to see Betty Aberlin perform a few simple magic tricks. Lady Elaine has her reservations about the upcoming play the Neighborhood of Make-Believe will stage. Mr. Anybody tells her she can be in the play if she asks to.

1970-04-02T05:00:00Z

3x44 Play Day With Pets

3x44 Play Day With Pets

  • 1970-04-02T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers brings two gerbils to his television house. On a visit to the McFeelys' house, he finds Mr. McFeely looking after a Saint Bernard. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bob Dog is practicing for his role in the play Let the Vet Get the Pet, but it isn't easy.

1970-04-03T05:00:00Z

3x45 Plays Are Playing Pretend

3x45 Plays Are Playing Pretend

  • 1970-04-03T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers looks after two penguins for Mr. McFeely. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its stage play, about a vet flying in a jet to check on a pet.

1970-04-06T05:00:00Z

3x46 Seashells and Shapes

3x46 Seashells and Shapes

  • 1970-04-06T05:00:00Z30m

Robert Troll visits to see baby Ana Platypus, as do X and Henrietta.

1970-04-07T05:00:00Z

3x47 Waiting for Time to Pass

3x47 Waiting for Time to Pass

  • 1970-04-07T05:00:00Z30m

Dr. Bill Platypus talks about time to X and Henrietta, who discover the newborn platypus is too small to play with them.

1970-04-08T05:00:00Z

3x48 The Fortune Telling Game

3x48 The Fortune Telling Game

  • 1970-04-08T05:00:00Z30m

Mr. McFeely delivers a fortune teller's costume, which Mr. Anybody wears to predict the future.

1970-04-09T05:00:00Z

3x49 Still There, Underneath

3x49 Still There, Underneath

  • 1970-04-09T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers welcomes Mrs. Franks, who demonstrates leather carving. Later he discusses wearing an eye patch. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri assures King Friday that his eye is underneath an eye patch.

1970-04-10T05:00:00Z

3x50 Loving a Puppy

3x50 Loving a Puppy

  • 1970-04-10T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers shows the dog belonging to his son John. At Bob Trow's workshop, Rogers finds Trow and John working on fingerpaint pictures. In the Neighborhood of Make Believe, Handyman Negri and Lady Aberlin have a message for Bob Dog.

1970-04-13T05:00:00Z

3x51 Sharing and Preparing

3x51 Sharing and Preparing

  • 1970-04-13T05:00:00Z30m

Gifts have been pouring in for the imminent birth of Queen Sara's baby. One of those gifts is a paper crown, which Henrietta takes without asking.

1970-04-14T05:00:00Z

3x52 Prince Tuesday Is Born

3x52 Prince Tuesday Is Born

  • 1970-04-14T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers talks of being able to do certain skills at certain ages. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is abuzz with excitement, as Queen Sara gives birth to a prince named Tuesday.

1970-04-15T05:00:00Z

3x53 Gifts for the New Baby

3x53 Gifts for the New Baby

  • 1970-04-15T05:00:00Z30m

The gifts keep pouring in for the newborn Prince Tuesday, which makes Lady Elaine jealous. Joey Hollingsworth arrives with gifts for the baby and other neighbors.

1970-04-16T05:00:00Z

3x54 The Resting Queen

3x54 The Resting Queen

  • 1970-04-16T05:00:00Z30m

A watch repairman shows Rogers the proper use of his watch-cleaning machine. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Nurse Miller tells all that Queen Sara and the newborn prince will accept visitors next week.

1970-04-17T05:00:00Z

3x55 Dance Rehearsal

3x55 Dance Rehearsal

  • 1970-04-17T05:00:00Z30m

Instead of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Rogers sees a story played out in Betty's Little Theater. Four dancers, dressed as raccoons, perform a nighttime adventure.

1970-04-20T05:00:00Z

3x56 Decrying the Crying Baby

3x56 Decrying the Crying Baby

  • 1970-04-20T05:00:00Z30m

Lady Elaine is annyued with Prince Tuesday's constant crying. At one point, she asks King Friday and Queen Sara to send the baby back.

Prince Tuesday is one week old, and the Castle is suitably decorated for a celebration. King Friday gives gifts to everyone, which only rides Lady Elaine's jealousy.

Rogers shows how he works Picture-Picture and then the Trolley. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday asks that Reardon put together an opera within two days.

Reardon fears he doesn't have enough time to write an opera for Friday, but he assembles the basics quickly.

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its opera about the Pineapple Can Telephone Company.

1970-04-27T04:00:00Z

3x61 How to Grow Carrots

3x61 How to Grow Carrots

  • 1970-04-27T04:00:00Z30m

Captain Kangaroo visits, first at Rogers' television house and then in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He sees that Lady Elaine and Donkey Hodie are hopeful that the carrots would grow faster somehow.

Rogers visits Jan Zandhuis, a glassblower, who is doing a project for Mrs. Saunders. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday feels baby Prince Tuesday should be taught subtraction.

1970-04-29T04:00:00Z

3x63 Dancing to Meet People

3x63 Dancing to Meet People

  • 1970-04-29T04:00:00Z30m

Rogers makes modeling clay, a perfect spot for son Jamie to discuss clay figurines. Dancer Ethel Winter is toured around the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and Someplace Else.

1970-04-30T04:00:00Z

3x64 Friendships and Family

3x64 Friendships and Family

  • 1970-04-30T04:00:00Z30m

Rogers relates the lessons on teeth that he learned as a child.

Season Finale

1970-05-01T04:00:00Z

3x65 Orange You Glad It’s Real Juice

Season Finale

3x65 Orange You Glad It’s Real Juice

  • 1970-05-01T04:00:00Z30m

Rogers and Chef Brockett play games in which one doesn't see, but hears or feels.

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